Occupy The Other Wall Street

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About 20 miles to the north of the Salton Sea, between Los Angeles and the border with Arizona, the Wall Street mill was once a busy center of economic activity, a place for miners to refine gold out the ore they hauled out of the ground. It’s been abandoned for 50 years.

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Are Restricted Travel Zones Within The USA A Good Idea?

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We don’t have border checkpoints between U.S. states, certainly not between counties within a state in New Mexico. Such checkpoints would be necessary, however, to enforce the restrictions on movement contained in the Southern New Mexico Economic Development Act.

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The Magico-Religious Ritual Of Our Time

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Where would we find magico-religious ritual portals, of the sort described by Arnold Van Gennep in The Rites of Passage, in our own time? Here’s a hint: They only allow three ounce containers for your liquids.

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They Had To Pee! Homeland Security Responds With F-16 Fighters

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Unconfirmed reports suggest that the people may have “locked themselves in the bathroom”, but anonymous sources within the transportation industry implied that everybody locks the door to the bathroom when on an airplane, as that’s the only way to keep the door from swinging open.

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Disney World Made Easy and Really Easy

Budget Travel’s version of Disney World Made Easy: to avoid gigantic parking fees, park outside an overflow lot on the far end of the resort, walk ten minutes, then take a shuttle bus with a transfer to another shuttle bus …

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The Sheep Go Baa

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Spotted a few feet away from the Transportation Security Agency’s full-body scanner in the Houston airport: Say baa, America.

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Walk Through the Solar System on the National Mall

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The next time you’re in Washington DC with your family, why not take a walk through the solar system? It’s not the first to-scale walking model of the solar system in existence (that honor, I think, goes to the Carl …

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Knitting Needles: Fine on a Plane, But not in the halls of Congress

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One of the oddities of the Transportation Security Agency is its knitting needle policy. You can’t bring the thinnest and tiniest of drill bits on board in your carryon bag. You can’t bring a pair of pliers onto a plain …

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Ron Paul Speaks Against Groping And Gawking

Ron Paul spoke strongly against the genital caresses and nude x-rays that the TSA is forcing upon air travelers in the United States.

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Better than a Fair to keep you Fair: Longacre Farms Maize Maze

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I love going to county fairs in the summertime to animalwatch, to peoplewatch, to test my stomach’s fortitude on rides and to test my stomach’s fortitude at the booths. Fairs are loads of fun, but it’s hard to say that …

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Selective Clubbing in Portland, Maine

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In yesterday’s Sunday New York Times, Lionel Beehner made the case for staying away from the most concentrated clubbing area in Portland, Maine. According to Beehner, “The bars along Wharf Street can get pretty fratty.” Beehner suggests you go bowling …

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Cultural Blending at the Ross County Fair

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I love the cultural blends that shape America. I can also report that a deep-fried Twinkie tastes just about as awful as you’d expect.

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Are these hotel perks for families? Are they new?

Roger Yu’s article in yesterday’s USA Today grabbed my attention for its headline claim that “Hotels court business travelers’ spouses, kids.” Yu’s examples of new perks offered to court the spouses and children of business travelers: •In 2011, Homewood Suites …

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Common Good Cafe an uncommonly good stop on Mt. Desert Island

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If you find yourself on Mount Desert Island, perhaps to see the most extravagant beauties of Acadia National Park, take a stop to the often-neglected southwestern corner of the island for two highlights: the Wonderland trail leads to a low-tide …

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London’s New Motto

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On every street in the center of town there are multiple cameras aimed in multiple directions, making it impossible to have a moment of privacy.

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Entero, cocci! Behind the Maine Healthy Beaches Initiative

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This morning, some visiting extended family members and I took a trip to the little-known pocket beach called Goodies Beach in Rockport, Maine. It was a sunny day, the water was warm enough to swim in with a bit of …

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I See London, I See France, I See Greenland’s …

I saw Greenland’s mountains. I saw the actual mountains. The rocks.

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Which Florida Will You Visit?

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Visions of Florida tourism, from VisitFlorida and from the Escambia County Health Department.

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